28 June 2010

ICML 2010 Retrospective

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Just got back from Israel for ICML , which was a great experience: I'd wanted to go there for a while and this was a perfect opportunity...
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07 June 2010

NAACL 2010 Retrospective

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I just returned from NAACL 2010 , which was simultaneously located in my home town of Los Angeles and located nowhere near my home town of L...
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29 April 2010

Graduating? Want a post-doc? Let NSF pay!

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I get many of emails of the form "I'm looking for a postdoc...." I'm sure that other, more senior, more famous people get...
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20 April 2010

((A => B) and (not B)) => (not A)

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I remember back in middle school or high school -- added uncertainty so as not to date myself too much -- I first learned of the existence o...
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12 April 2010

How I teach machine learning

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I've had discussions about this with tons of people, and it seems like my approach is fairly odd. So I thought I'd blog about it be...
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07 April 2010

When Maximum Likelihood Doesn't Make Sense

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One of the most fun AHA moments in ML or stats is when you see that for multinomial distributions, your naive idea of relative frequency cor...
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01 April 2010

Classification weirdness, regression simplicity

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In the context of some work on multitask learning, we came to realize that classification is kind of weird. Or at least linear classificati...
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20 February 2010

Google 5gram corpus has unreasonable 5grams

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In the context of something completely unrelated, I was looking for a fairly general pattern in the Google 1TB corpus. In particular, I was...
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17 February 2010

Senses versus metaphors

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I come from a tradition of not really believing in word senses. I fondly remember a talk Ed Hovy gave when I was a grad student. He liste...
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07 February 2010

Blog heads east

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I started this blog ages ago while still in grad school in California at USC / ISI . It came with me three point five years ago when I sta...
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31 January 2010

Coordinate ascent and inverted indices...

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Due to a small off-the-radar project I'm working on right now, I've been building my own inverted indices. (Yes, I'm vaguely aw...
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26 January 2010

A machine learner's apology

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Andrew Gelman recently announced an upcoming talk by John Lafferty . This reminded me of a post I've been meaning to write for ages (y...
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19 January 2010

Interviewing Follies

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Continuing on the theme of applying for jobs , I thought I'd share some interviewing follies that have happened to me, that I've obs...
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04 January 2010

ArXiV and NLP, ML and Computer Science

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Arxiv is something of an underutilized resource in computer science. Indeed, many computer scientists seems not to even know it exists, des...
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30 December 2009

Some random NIPS thoughts...

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I missed the first two days of NIPS due to teaching. Which is sad -- I heard there were great things on the first day. I did end up seeing...
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16 December 2009

From Kivenen/Warmuth and EG to CW learning and Adaptive Regularization

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This post is a bit of a historical retrospective, because it's only been recently that these things have aligned themselves in my head. ...
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17 November 2009

K-means vs GMM, sum-product vs max-product

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I finished K-means and Gaussian mixture models in class last week or maybe the week before. I've previously discussed the fact that th...
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07 November 2009

NLP as a study of representations

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Ellen Riloff and I run an NLP reading group pretty much every semester. Last semester we covered "old school NLP." We independe...
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